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[Clipping: Birthday Greetings]

Description: Newspaper clipping featuring an article wishing former Senator W. J. Bryan a happy birthday and recounting his life accomplishments. Another article is published in the clipping recounting thoughts on war and death from statistician writer Roger W. Babson. Partial ads are printed on the back.
Date: September 28, 1947
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Clipping: One Of First Autos In Texas Donated To Abilene Scrap Pile]

Description: Newspaper clippings about former senator William John Bryan donating his car, one of the first in Texas, to be scrapped for the war effort. The article also recounts a harrowing trip the senator made to Austin in the vehicle.
Date: September 28, 1942
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Clipping: 318th Graduates Largest Class]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the activities of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, class of 43-W-4, the type of meals they were served at Avenger Field and the details of their graduation ceremony.
Date: September 12, 1943
Creator: Welz, B. J. & Gardner, Elizabeth L.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

O. Henry Relics Guarded by State Land Office

Description: Photo essay containing images of photos, maps, and documents describing the General Land Office Archives holdings related to O. Henry. Includes a photo of Land Commissioner Bascom Giles standing next to O.Henry's drafting table in the Land Office.
Date: September 7, 1941
Creator: Dallas Morning News
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Three hero medal winners to be honored Sunday

Description: Clipping from a newspaper about a dance given by the Houston Council of the League of United Latin American Citizens to honor three Congressional Medal of Honor winners: Macario Garcia, Clteo Rodriguez and Lucina Adams.
Date: September 1945
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

L.U.L.A.C pays homage to Sugar Land war hero

Description: Clipping from The Houston Post about a LULAC meeting held to honor Staff Sgt. Macario Garcia. Garcia received the Congressional Medal of Honor on August 23, 1945, from President Harry Truman. Post photograph features Robert E. Smith ; Sergeant Macario Garcia ; and John J. Herrera.
Date: September 7, 1945
Creator: Gregory, Martha
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Scrapbook Fragment with Clippings]

Description: Partial scrapbook page with clippings entitled "Council reverses license rejection," "Taxi driver chooses law; so does son," and "Seventy taking bar exams here." Also includes an invoice from Dwyer's Drug Store and a money. order.
Date: September 1, 1941
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Casualties Lists]

Description: List of casualties from August 15 to September 15, 1944, listed by state.
Date: 1944-09~
Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: All-American Babe]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl posing wearing a modified baseball uniform and cleats paired with the verse "All-American Babe!" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the 1940 painting "Out at Home" by Fletcher Martin used especially for the September edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts a scene of a baseball player sliding into home plate surrounded by the referee and catcher.
Date: September 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Martin, Fletcher
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sleepytime Gal]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl paired with Sleepytime Gal by Phil Stack followed by a reproduction print of the painting "The Biggest Game Fish Ever Landed" by Melbourne Brindle done especially for Esquire Magazine in 1946 for the September edition. The painting celebrates the story of one of the pioneers of large game angling and author Zane Grey who traveled to Tahiti in the spring of 1930 to catch Tahitian striped marlin [Blue Marlin] and on M… more
Date: September 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Brindle, Melbourne
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Description: Page from True Magazine featuring an illustration of a Petty Girl and descriptive text reading " There's something wrong with this line... a man called and didn't try to date me!" followed by a reproductive print of a painting depicting a man fishing a mountain lake. Pin-ups by artist George Petty or "Petty Girls" first made their appearance in 1933 and into the 1950s set the standard for American female beauty. The hallmarks of Petty pin-ups are elongated limbs most noted in the legs, a flirta… more
Date: 1947-09~
Creator: Petty, George & L., F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Military Secrets]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a sheer dress printed with the verse "Military Secrets" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Jap Eradicator by John Falter used especially for the September edition 1943. The painting depicts two soldiers camouflaged in jungle plants firing an automatic weapon.
Date: September 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Political Cartoon and Fishing Article]

Description: Political cartoon created by Looey Graff depicting a plump and wealthy war plant striker with an arm wrapped around the shoulder of an injured World War II veteran yelling, “Well! We Won the War! Didn’t We Kid?”. The back of the political cartoon features an article touching upon fishing and the three different types of fishing activities: hobby, sportsman, and deep-sea. Two additional cartoons are at the bottom of the article.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Watkins, Nina E. & Graff, Looey
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Clipping: To Check Rainey Plan]

Description: Clipping from the McAllen Monitor describing the appointment of State Senator Karl Lovelady to a committee determining whether factual education or economic grounds support recommendations of Dr. Homer P. Rainey to remove the medical center institutions from Galveston and Houston.
Date: September 24, 1944
Creator: McAllen Monitor
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Clipping: New York Herald Tribune}

Description: Clipping from New York Herald Tribune describing New York Herald Tribune.
Date: September 19, 1948
Creator: New York Herald Tribune
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Clipping: Morale Builder]

Description: Clipping describing a proposal that would improve the appearance of Galveston while providing employment postwar.
Date: September 16, 1944
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Expectation by Fritz Willis

Description: Pages from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, is Expectation by Fritz Willis, depicting blonde starlet daydreaming on set. On the facing page, the same actress is seen engaged in conversation with a film crew.
Date: September 1946
Creator: Willis, Fritz & De Mers, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Promise by Euclid Shook

Description: Pages from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. on the first page, a blonde woman reclining against lace pillows with pins in her mouth and a comb by her side. On facing page, a lone auburn-haired woman holding a green dress with flowers up seductively.
Date: September 1946
Creator: Shook, Euclid & Varady, Fredric
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring a movie ad for "Anchors Aweigh"]

Description: Esquire Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with commercially printed illustrations paired with descriptive text. The front of the clipping features a motion picture advertisement for MGM's musical comedy in color film "Anchors Aweigh" starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. The leaf shows photos of the actors in costume at the base of the ad. The back of the leaf includes a continued article titled "Man the Kitchenette" along with an aside titled "On the Edge of … more
Date: September 1945
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Our Women Pilots]

Description: Magazine clipping of the article, "Our Women Pilots" discussing the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squad. There are four photos of the women pilots including one of Nancy Harkness Love in front of an aircraft, Betty Giles walking towards a plane, and Evelyn Sharp leaning out of a cockpit window in a C-47.
Date: September 1943
Creator: Knight, Charlotte
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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